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    Sande, also known as zadεgi, bundu, bundo and bondo, is a women's initiation society in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast. The Sande society...
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    tribe.[citation needed] The Poro society is the male equivalent to the female Sande society. When inducted into this society, Mende boys are initiated into...
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    Poro Sande society Poro Sande society Crocodile Society Poro Sande society Simo Ekpe Nze na Ozo Ogboni Confraternities in Nigeria Crocodile Society Leopard...
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    Poro (redirect from Poro Society)
    hunting society and only males are admitted to its ranks. The female counterpart of the Poro society is the Sande society. The Poro society was part...
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  • Sande may refer to: Look up Sande in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up sande in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sande, Agder, a village in Farsund...
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    masquerade performances.[citation needed] Mende and Vai women of the Sande society in Sierra Leone don the Sowei mask during rites of passage, specifically...
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  • traditional Chinese religious groups among the expatriate community. The Sande society is a secret women's association found in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea...
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  • Kru and German ancestry. There has always been Sande as long as Gola people have existed. The Sande society came before the Bohn or “Poro”. According to...
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    the Sande society. Symbolically, it reflects a lot of the characteristics the Sande treasure, such as purity and elusiveness. The Sande society daubs...
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    gender-based indigenous religious secret societies, such as Poro for men and Sande for women. The all-female Sande society practices female circumcision. Muslims...
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    among those that practice the woman initiation society called Sande. (Also referred to as Bondo). The Sande / Bondo sub-culture is believed to be originated...
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    religious ideologies of two radically different types of noncapitalist society, as they encountered each other in an ongoing cross-cultural situation...
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  • shrewd marriage choices and the power afforded her from the secret Sande society, Yoko became a leader of considerable influence. She expanded the Mende...
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    Sierra Leone society called the Sande society, sometimes called Bondo. A 2007 demographic survey asked women if they belonged to Sande society. It was assumed...
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  • respectively. During Sande's sovereignty, all signs of the men's society are banished. At the end of this three-year period, the Sande leadership "turns...
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    Walter Sande (July 9, 1906 – November 22, 1971) was an American character actor, known for numerous supporting film and television roles. Born in Denver...
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    Sierra Leone, who in 1992 underwent clitoridectomy as an adult during a Sande society initiation, argued in 2000 that it is a male-centred assumption that...
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  • ancestry. As a child, Perry participated in the Sande society, a traditional school and secret society for females, and attended regular classes. Her parents...
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    often practiced by organized societies, whether the traditional Sande and Poro societies or the more recent odelay societies of Freetown, and express a...
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  • member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1991. Short film Documentary short TV movies TV series "THEO VAN DE SANDE". cinematographers.nl...
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    religious secret societies associated with the spirit world, including the Poro and Sande gender-based secret societies. The Sande society champions women's...
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  • footballer Jeremy Bonderman (born 1982), American baseball pitcher Sande society (also: Bondo, Bundo or Bundu), a women's association found in parts...
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  • oldest continent-wide women's organization in Africa (founded 1962) Sande society – initiating girls into adulthood Women'sNet – South African support...
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    Hendrik (Hendrikus) van de Sande Bakhuyzen (2 January 1795 – 12 December 1860) was a Dutch landscape painter and art teacher. He was a prominent contributor...
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    mixture of human and animal features. Helmet mask (ndoli jowei) for Sande society; late 19th-early 20th century; wood; 39.4 x 23.5 x 26 cm (151⁄2 x 91⁄4...
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  • Scottish recording artist Emeli Sandé. The album was released on 13 February 2012 by Virgin Records, following Sandé's winning of the Critics' Choice Award...
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  • violence for her reporting on female genital mutilation by the secret Sande society, Sky FM's Tetee Gebro broadcast a version of Azango's story in a show...
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  • Merle Alden Sande (September 2, 1939 – November 4, 2007) was a leading American infectious-diseases expert whose early recognition of the looming public...
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    continued to be employed in the society of the region, for example, as tokens of completing rituals in the Poro and Sande Societies; as bridewealth, and also...
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  • female child born to a mother in former French Guinea. After attending a Sande society initiation school, she was given the name "Suah" or "Suaa", which was...
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